Tabitha N. Goring, MD

I am a board-certified specialist in internal medicine who joined Memorial Sloan Kettering in 2010. I am an academic hospitalist — a physician who specializes in the comprehensive care of patients while they are in the hospital. I currently focus on the care of patients with gastrointestinal malignancies and am responsible for coordinating their clinical care and management from their admission to the inpatient medical ward until they leave the hospital. I am also interested in hospital quality initiatives as well as palliative care and hospice medicine..

In addition to my clinical work, I have a strong interest in the education of young physicians and am involved in teaching both medical students and residents. I currently serve as associate director of the residency program for rotating house staff, working closely with the program director and the chief resident to provide exemplary training of our transitional-year interns and rotating house staff.

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After receiving my MD degree in 2000 from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, I trained in internal medicine with a concentration in women’s health at Jacobi Medical Center, an affiliate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I was then chosen to be a chief resident, responsible for the management of the internal medicine residency program. I subsequently worked as an academic hospitalist at Yale-New Haven Hospital and then Jacobi Medical Center where I served as director of the hospitalist program. I then moved to Los Angeles where I served as an academic hospitalist and an associate director of the residency training program at LAC+USC Medical Center, an affiliate of Keck School of Medicine.

clinical (KLIH-nih-kul)

Having to do with the examination and treatment of patients.

Source: The National Cancer Institute's Dictionary of Cancer Terms(http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary)

concentration (KON-sen-TRAY-shun)

In science, the amount of a substance, such as a salt, that is in a certain amount of tissue or liquid, such as blood. A substance becomes more concentrated when less water is present. For example, the salt in urine may become more concentrated when a person doesn’t drink enough water.

Source: The National Cancer Institute's Dictionary of Cancer Terms(http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary)

gastrointestinal (GAS-troh-in-TES-tih-nul)

Refers to the stomach and intestines. Also called GI.

Source: The National Cancer Institute's Dictionary of Cancer Terms(http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary)

hospice (HOS-pis)

A program that provides special care for people who are near the end of life and for their families, either at home, in freestanding facilities, or within hospitals.

Source: The National Cancer Institute's Dictionary of Cancer Terms(http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary)

medicine (MEH-dih-sin)

Refers to the practices and procedures used for the prevention, treatment, or relief of symptoms of a diseases or abnormal conditions. This term may also refer to a legal drug used for the same purpose.

Source: The National Cancer Institute's Dictionary of Cancer Terms(http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary)

oncology (on-KAH-loh-jee)

The study of cancer.

Source: The National Cancer Institute's Dictionary of Cancer Terms(http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary)

palliative care (PA-lee-uh-tiv kayr)

Care given to improve the quality of life of patients who have a serious or life-threatening disease. The goal of palliative care is to prevent or treat as early as possible the symptoms of a disease, side effects caused by treatment of a disease, and psychological, social, and spiritual problems related to a disease or its treatment. Also called comfort care, supportive care, and symptom management.

Source: The National Cancer Institute's Dictionary of Cancer Terms(http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary)

physician (fih-ZIH-shun)

Medical doctor.

Source: The National Cancer Institute's Dictionary of Cancer Terms(http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary)

specialist (SPEH-shuh-list)

In medicine, a doctor or other health care professional who is trained and licensed in a special area of practice. Examples of medical specialists include oncologists (cancer specialists) and hematologists (blood specialists).

Source: The National Cancer Institute's Dictionary of Cancer Terms(http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary)

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